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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.

Haruki Murakami

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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Couple Existence Relationship Remember
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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Ocean People Talk
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Distinguish Real Writing
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.

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